I agree! I have a Win Phone 7 and the only LDS scriptures available are a paid version and not very good. Really looking forward to having all of the LDS apps that other mobile platforms have had for some time. Can we at least get an estimated delivery date so we know when to look for them?

dyarn wrote:I agree! I have a Win Phone 7 and the only LDS scriptures available are a paid version and not very good.

I've been using the free YanCEyware reader with my WM6 smartphone for a couple of years. Don't see why it wouldn't work with 7. They have an enormous amount of content ported from church and other publications with more being added each month. I'm also looking forward to the LDS app, but until that happens, this is an alternative is worth looking at.

[EDIT: Oops, I just read up on this a bit further and found WP7 is way too different to support the WM6.x version of the YanCEyware reader and no update is expected. Sorry about the misleading info.]

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Mikerowaved wrote:[EDIT: Oops, I just read up on this a bit further and found WP7 is way too different to support the WM6.x version of the YanCEyware reader and no update is expected. Sorry about the misleading info.]

Yeah, it's a completely different development stack for writing mobile apps. It relies entirely on Silverlight for it's UI implementation, instead of mobile version of WinForms as pre-WP7 did.

I know that a few WP7 development teams have been formed for mobile apps. I have first-hand experience with browsing around the source code of the Mormon Channel radio and content streaming app, it is coming along decently. I had also heard that there was some sort of partnership with Microsoft or one of its partners to help develop or consult on one of the community apps in order to showcase the new phone and its OS (very kind of them I'd say, but I bet they are benefiting from exposure; hopefully I'm not mistaken of what I thought I had heard). In truth though, I have no real idea of any timelines, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of them came out officially within the first half of this year (seems reasonable to me from the limited knowledge I have of the status of the projects).

Many questions are already answered on the LDSTech wiki. Check it out!

The reality is that MS doesn't have an army of open source software developers. While they have slightly more developers for proprietary software, it's still a meager number. That said, I'm running the Android apps, too